I have a nativist preference for the American way, but I can see putting it in international form. The thing is it's as big a deal when something says "May 02, 2013" when it says 5/2/13.

I know there's talk among the developers of moving it over to the right of the Home|Instructions|Scoreboard|etc. stuff. Given that space might be an issue over there, perhaps it should be put in a more international but shortened format. I would recommend: 2013/05/02 15:24:37. Even us dumb Americans could figure out that means May 2 and not Feb. 5

Using a format like 02/05/2013 has the exact reverse consequence of confusion but the victims would be the Americans who make up over half of the site's users.

agentcom wrote:Using a format like 02/05/2013 has the exact reverse consequence of confusion but the victims would be the Americans who make up over half of the site's users.

aren't Americans are normally confused?

if the site wants to expand then the International format would be the default for the majority of new users.

All I'm saying is that putting the four-digit year first and then doing descending order won't confuse anyone, American or otherwise.

This is something that is being worked on on the test site, but there was some issue finding the right place for it and the developers are having to write their own version of it because all of the existing ones that they found had one problem or another, so it was easier just to write their own. But, as with everything, we have to make sure we don't break anything by making that go live on the site. #recurringthemeofrecentimprovements

agentcom wrote:I have a nativist preference for the American way, but I can see putting it in international form. The thing is it's as big a deal when something says "May 02, 2013" when it says 5/2/13.

I know there's talk among the developers of moving it over to the right of the Home|Instructions|Scoreboard|etc. stuff. Given that space might be an issue over there, perhaps it should be put in a more international but shortened format. I would recommend: 2013/05/02 15:24:37. Even us dumb Americans could figure out that means May 2 and not Feb. 5

Using a format like 02/05/2013 has the exact reverse consequence of confusion but the victims would be the Americans who make up over half of the site's users.

In the United States we post things like this> Month Day then YearBut in some other countries it is Day then Month and Year.This could be VERY Confusing... But by Using letters for the Month... Dec, Jan, Sept etc. this would not be a problem. and the date can be placed Under the Clock in say 12 pt type so as not to take up too much space.

Army of GOD wrote:What's wrong with "May 12, 2013"? That way there is 0 possibility for confusion.

Well, my response would've been "takes up too much space." But I didn't make it here in time. Now we have at least one user that I've seen complaining about the clock overflowing onto the buttons at top when using mobile browsers. (You can try this at home by (1) Getting adult supervision and then (2) Resizing your screen.) I hope that problem is limited to a small number of users. As a laptop user, I'm happy with the new feature.

If space is an issue for a lot of users, I would suggest:

YY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS CCST

That's about as short as you can make it without omitting reference to Conquer Club, plus I just made up a new time zone.

Either that or bounding the time in a cell, so that it is not allowed to overlap the "Help" cell but instead extends the width of the page.